The Use of Personal Pronouns: Role Relationships in Scientific journal Articles  

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Kuo, Chih-Hua

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 2 (1999), page 121-138.
Fulltext: 18_02_Chih-Hua Kuo.pdf (265.0KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper presents an empirical study of personal pronouns in scientific journal articles. Viewing written text as interaction, this study investigates how the use of personal pronouns may reveal writers' perceptions of their own role in research and their relationship with expected readers as well as the scientific-academic community. First-person plural pronouns are used far more frequently than other types of personal pronouns. A further analysis of first-person plural pronouns suggests that they can have a number of semantic references and perform multiple functions in the journal article. Examples from sampled texts show how writers use strategically exclusive "we" to refer to writers themselves or inclusive "we" to refer to either writers and readers or the discipline as a whole for different communicative purposes. The use of second-person, third-person, and indefinite pronouns also reflects a writer's intention to secure cooperation from, and stress solidarity with, readers.

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